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quickly turning backgrounding brown. conditions right now are two months drier and two months more flammable than normal. i have learned few moistures of how much water remain in the vegetation is a historic low for april. >> what we would see for june because of the lack of moistures of the last half of the rain year . >> living in a roof house to rapidly dry grass land. >> i want to create a defensible space, we back up to the open space here
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and you can tell that the weeds here are all brown already, it is april >> unfortunately, this condition are right for us to have some kind of event. >> a red flag warning goes in an effect an hour from now through tomorrow evening. coming up at 6:00, i will show you the science behind the danger and talk to someone that actually started the fire here. ktvu channel 2 news. where a man is under arrest accused of trying to kidnap a baby. this is a picture of the man trying to take a 15 month old child from his mother. the police are trying to figure out if the suspect is connected to the mother of 8-year-old leila fowler. we'll go live on more of the arrest in just a minute.
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>> reporter: we are right outside the elementary school. to the breaking news you have been talking about, we have been contact in both the police and the calaveras county sheriff's deputy, they say at this point it is too early to say if there is a connection but they're looking into it and we'll keep on following that story. i did show the picture of the person who is arrested to some of the teachers and people who are gathered here for tonight, they are of course are interested inside the latest development but but nobody here recognize of the image arrested in plaster ville. things are slowly getting back to normal but the healing process continues, we talk to the cool principal and parents and a parent of a six grader who knows leila's
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brother. he's the one that found leila, the stabbing victim. >> i said i hope he will get through this and he will have a better life. >> it is so hurting because a mother's worst fear. >> is this going to get any better >> >> oh, i think so. i think it would be a big relief for some of the people because everybody is locking the doors and everybody is inside. >> the last two days have been incredible of the support staff and the community and the parents have all been great in terms of helping our students to get through this in a positive way. hopefully tonight we'll bring some closures for us. >> reporter: leila parents stopped by this ay walked through the campus with the school's officials kind of getting a preview of what the
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candle light visual going to be all about. they have not talked to anybody so far. they have been asking for privacy as they go through the difficult time. again, that event starts at 7:30. what we can expect from that visit of the visual that happens tonight, we'll tell you more about that tonight at 6:00. live in calaveras county, ken wane channel 2 news. the baby's mother literally wrestled her child from the suspect. is this case connected in any way from the little girl in calaveras county. reported live tonight. >> patricia does not speak much of english, this picture symbolizes where
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the next word you here is powerful. >> i think this would be a bizarre event anywhere in our country. >> police say this man 44-year-old jason followed a mother up these stairs and forced his way into the apartment. police say he grabbed the 15 month old. >> we run to our room. >> you hid in the room. >> so you pushed the door close? >> yes . >> led police to collect dna and kaekt the contact the sheriff's deputy of any possible connection to the 8-year-old girl. what is known is neighbors say police
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told her about this suspect's motive in plaster ville. >> what did the police tell you? >> that the devil tell him to kill the baby. >> reporter: he would not confirm whether ore suspect made that statement or any other statements including anything about calaveras county. siting an open investigation. meanwhile i did inquire here ift would speak to us from jail. i was told that the inmate is now in a quote safety cell and unable to take any visitors. in plaster ville county. back to you. they also want more youth programs and want the swim center to be
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renovated. tonight meeting is on willow pass road at 7 p.m.. the 11-year-old fayetteville boy is injured in the bombing is back at home tonight. john. >> reporter: you are r they jus back about 2 hours from the airport and the parents telling us how the boys are doing. >> allan and catherine arriving home this afternoon. >> we never have really gotten a chance to thank everybody for everything they have been doing for us back here while we are away. >> the almost 12-year-old aaron hurt in the bombing as his mother finished the marathon on april 15th. >> he has to do photojournalist physical therapy.
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>> some of aaron's schoolmates stop by the home, they told us the school is buzzing about aaron coming back to class. >> everybody is excited for him to just come back. >> his parents say it is still unclear when he will return to school. aaron turns 12 tomorrow, aaron wanted to wake up on his own bed on his birthday. live, ktvu channel 2 news. violent southeasterly thief, 4 -- he storm is expected of a series of crime stretching from the central coast to the bay area. this surveillance showing him stealing a vehicle. storm is wanted on assault of police officer and car they have
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and robbery. police activity shutdown on the bay area neighborhood. the alameda county tell us this is a san jose police operation, we do have a call into them and are waiting to find more details of what's specifically happening. officer say the two were doing some sort of targeting practice. it happened about 7:30 this morning. one bullet hits a neighbor's home but no one was hurt. at this point there is no charges. investigators believed that the virus was spread my mice. kathy was one of six people that got sick. she says she now has a million dollars in medical
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bill suffering from low lungs capacity and a lack of energy. you can buy a ticket in a positive section for the out field for tonight's oakland game and here is the reason why. >> he has struck out four times. >> this may do it. >> hit it. >> glenn kaepernick who made the call. that and a six hours and 32 mins marathon as the ais a's beat the laz laz angels. >> more details on the a's game no looked up things that you can do. you can
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drive from oakland to anaheim for about 6 hours and 10 minutes or you can play the shortest game of baseball history more than 7 times. it took the giants and the philadelphia just 51 minutes to play a 9 ending game back in 1919. there are new details of the case of the starbucks shop, we'll show you the suspect and tell you why she faces a possible attempted murder charge. does the u.s. agree of the mexican authority about what contributed to the debt?
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>> they are protested for the proposed budget. more money for the police cut human services and also forcing them to
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contribute more to the health care and pension plans. protester are packed tonight of the oakland county where members are talking about the budget. we'll have a live report coming up of the 6:00 forecast. today the san jose police released a picture of a woman accused. it also tells us why an attempted murder had been add to the allegations today. robert. >> reporter: police say the attempted poisons we first reported last night. woman tampered of two bottles of evolution orange juice and put them on the account and in attempt to kill someone. >> police say this san jose
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woman took two bottles of evolutional orange juice and replaced them with rubbing alcohol, nail polish, one customer says she brings her daughter her often. >> a lot of things i come here so it was a little unnerving. >> police say forge ly fortunately a customer saw what happened. >> she was arrested immediately at her resident and she was later booked for poisoning as well as attempted murder. the quantity of the rubbing alcohol inside the bottle was a lethal. >> >> it was very shocked. >> other neighbors responded wi. >> cannot imagine that a neighbor would do something like that, certainly if she's
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guilty she should cover the consequences. >> bottles at other stores are being examined at starbucks. >> they reminded me of some of the medication that's experienced years and years ago. it is hard to imagine somebody doing anything like this. >> reporter: live in seasons, ktvu channel 2t honda. who is keeping ag close side to make sure it is done closely. >> the finding says that negligence by the owner and crew were factors when the boat sank. the vessels known as the eric. in addition to negligence the cr
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instructed the 27 passengers about safety. united bay area today launched the mare er mayor summer jobs program. >> we set a goal this year for this summer with 6000 jobs for disadvantage youth. how about breaking that record? >> employees have already committed for hiring summer jobs including sales like starbucks or bank of america. last year more than part time jobs turned i permanent job.
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>> sentencing date have been set for for for -f a judge this morning set a sentencing date for june 7th. miss using of $130, 000 to fuel of gambling habit. under a plea deal sher rick cant up to a year in jail. last week congress pushed through a bill to restore funds to the faa to put air traffic controllers back to work. but someone left the s off the word account in the senate version and that typo meant president obama could not sign the bill. the senate corrected the typo and sent it to the white house the president had said that he will sign the bill.
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nasa is renewing its contract with russia. nasa agreed to pay russia $424 million to extend the contract to 2017. the 10% increase over the last contract or about $70 million for each round trip. nasa blames congress for the pricey contract. well, let's go back to the weather now, a red flag warning just about to go in effect about 45 minutes or so. what's going on? >> the winds are kicking up and that will be following by the red flag warning. here we got some winds coming up and of course the fire concerns are there. the red flag warning is a big deal. the high pressures are building in and pushing clouds down the valley. but you got clouds right now and some clouds. there is the red flag
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warning right there and you can see the hill tops, that does not mean it would not be dangerous fire conditions. again, if you are down about 5 or 600 feet, you can still have an issue obviously. the winds are what we are watching for. the temperatures are warm. humidity are worst. and then we got the north winds. when i come back at 10:00 they'l going to be pointing this way down of the arrows. that'll be of the beginning of the stronger winds. for the forecast, we are looking for some winds that start to coming down the slope, that'll warm things up. maybe even more, strongest
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winds should be out there out in fayetteville, temperatures tomorrow will be gradually warm. a lot of mid and upper 80s. dab blow have win gust up to 45 miles per hour. the forecast's highs tomorrow, those are 80s of the oranges. but, the real story is the wind. right now the strongest wind are blowing right down the valley. our wind will start picking up around midnight tonight and of course through the morning hour. when i come back we are going to get in the forecast specifically for your neighbor, how long is the heat going to last and how strong is the winds going to blow and in which area, we'll be back here in about 15 minutes. today is the day to dedicate
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for our heros who served in the military. wrestling fans are saying yahoo tonight.
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workers used a torch temporary to
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another burner at the arlington nat cemetery. the fire will be visible to tourists. this was a day to dedicate to our heros. >> in walnut creek, dozen of veterans brought their resumes. since it launch back in 2011 hiring our heros have helped hundreds of thousands of veterans. >> one more veteran. >> president obama and first lady michelle celebrated of the success of the -- initiative. u.s. businesses have hired or train 290, 000 veterans and
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military spouses over the past two years. >> this is about giving these men and women of a source of identity and purpose. it is about providing thousands of families with financial of security. >> the first lady also said u.s. businesses have committed to hiring or training another 430, 000 of america's heros over the next five years. partnership with world wrestling entertainment. three of the web series will be available in yahoo on the fall. the company is calling a viewing format. we'll include archive of monday's night raw preview of additional event.
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police are investigating of a hate crime. someone spray painted graph tee on the fa fleen know -- which will soon be renamed to honoring the philippine leaders. a bay area got carjacked and what the suspect told her as he tries to escape from the police.
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>> this is ktvu channel 2 news at 5:00. a mother carjacked and held
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a gun to her head commonly trying to rationalize with her abuductor. >> reporter: just minutes before police say e woman hostage at gunpoint at a near by shopping center. >> tina was getting into her truck when a man identified as jeffrey approached her. >> he opened the door and says get over the passenger seat, i looked at him and says i am not going to do >>. do that. >> i keep on talking abou conspiracy because i was trying to connect to him. >> >> she says in the 15 so minute, she was trapped and he had already taken
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somebody out. >> well, what would that prove. go out with the bang. >> she was finally able to get somebody's attention. humphreys says she was the says thank god, she was the one faced with this situation. >> so i am using to working with strong personalities and stuff and so i think that i have those skills. >> police say the boys ran into the near by neighborhood on the elizabeth circle. >> banging at the door and trying to get in. while i looked at him i see this big huge guy and he's pushing his body against my door and he's trying to get in. >> reporter: now police say before the boys t down here, he already kyle clark jacked a man leaving behind hundreds of bullets in the
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victim's vehicle. investigators tell us, they confiscated an ak 47 when they finally made the arrest last night. we are live, ktvu channel 2 news. more details now, we learned that morgan state police are investigating -- state police -- did confirm they are interviewing somebody who is arrested in california last night. who is reported to be mentally ill and in possession of firearms. president obama rejected criticism that the fbi ignored warning signs about one of the boston bombings suspects. the 90 day review of the fbi action.
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in 2011 russia told the u.s. thn was an extremist. the fbi interviewed tarmerlan but found no evidence that he was a threat to the u.s.. the president says he's going to try again to close the -- he tried to close it back in 2009. president obama says keeping the bay open hurts the united states relationship with its an lies. >> it is not necessary to keep america safe, it is expensive and it is in efficient. >> protesting their years of detention without a trial. the u.s. military is now force feeding some of the detain knees.
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this simpler form comes in response of a storm of compliants of the earlier version. today, president obama says his administration listens to the criticism and made a fix. the form was trimmed to about 21 pages to down to about 3 pages. after nba player jason collins publicly revealed that he's gay. chris says on the air yesterday that -- collins walking as open to god by living as a gay man. also says it is fully committed to diversity. he had no objection to him playing in the nba. we told you earlier in this
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fox 4 news cast about a woman poisoning the juice box at a starbucks. >> back in 1992, well, that sets off a 30 year packs of packaging. >> you find a wider range of packaging technique. >> it would be hard to mess with the container without altering the product in such a way where you could not recreate the packaging. >> golden west specialty food maker of high ends food for the lack of whole foods. >> the food industry takes safe packaging so seriously.
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>> there had been a lot of retailers -- have been acquiring food supply supplies. >> increasingly consumers will settle for nothing less. break away caps in a sealed containers and multiple sealed packages. >> it is a deal breaker. when it comes to food or medicine in particular, people have to feel like they're safe. >> incident of the juice poisoning case,. >> their sense of individual lens is up. they pay more attention than they have been in the past and i think that'll be increase. >> and if necessary set off new technologies. one area of food, non package of food such as produce
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still remains quite vulnerable. reporting live, ktvu news. it is being unfairly single out to reduce the amount of caffeine in the energy drinks. herrera requested documentation on drinks last year. the company claims that a child can consume an unlimited number of starbucks which has a more number of caffeine than the energy soda. and, new details of the midair collision that killed two people and how three others managed to escape without injuries in southern california.
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after two planes collided in midair. one plane crashed and burn yesterday killing both people on board. rescuers found the body of the pilot yesterday and they found a second body this morning. all three people on board survived. the faa are currently investigating the crash. to pay for an expansion of preschool programs. the president is pushing for a similar plan on a federal level. now, this comes as a new report shows preschools spending per child is actually at its lowest level in a decade. >> some of them don't get to go to preschool at all and others find the quality reduce so the class sizes are
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larger and the teachers are paid less. >> california spends about a thousand dollars less per child last year than the year before. a new type of mammogram promises few er fewer false positive and less risks, we'll show you the report. and how warm is it going to get and how windy it is going to get tonight, back here in a minute.
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breast cancer screening, 3-dmammogram. your insurance is not likely to pay for it but some do urge you to get it anyway. >> i have had breast cancer in the past and i have very dense breast so this new technology allows them to see more levels of the tissue. >> davis offers them to -- the ma does move, images are like an a ctmammogram. >> we also potentially are going to be able to protect more breast cancer with this technique. >> one study shows cut false
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positive from about 10-8%. >> so we see there is a high false positive rate. >> requires a specialized machine just like this one. right now the fda also requires a 2 d mammogram also at the same time so there is some radiation. >> breast cancer. radiation causes some cancers. jagger says add now the higher dose for a 3 d mammogram. >> depending on which recommendations are following and which technology they're utilizing.
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>> it is not covered by most insurance so whether a 3 d mammogram are for you depends on many factors, talk to your doctors. >> we really have limited study in that regard. >> this machine that you see davis using -f revealing cancer doctors say they could have missed. that technology is still years away. health and science center, john, ktvu news channel 2 news. the scientist studies how third grade students responded to tutoring in math. the specifically the size and ware ing wiring were
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good indicator where children can benefit from working with children. 20, 000 pounds of strawberries and 40, 000 pounds of fresh corns arrived this morning. with summer coming up and children out of school, food bay organizers say it is more critical than ever to have a continuing supplies of food for distribution. >> all the kids of low income kids who are getting school meals, well, that's going to stop. they're going to be relying on the food bank or the agency that we serve to provide food. >> today's produce is going to be set to pantry and schools and pantries. but, we'll still need more donations for the summer. san diego are stepping up on the effort
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of the log shot bid to host the summer olympics. the odds are not in favor of the cross border bid unless its charter are changed. the international olympics committee does not allowed for the border -- our chief meteorologist martin has been guiding us this since yesterday. >> they're occurring of the win. red flag warnings are coming in a few minutes. this high pressure is kind of building up in this area. you see this low pressure here, this thing kind of moving in the bay. so the winds are starting to come down the valley and that's going to start accelerate. we can see gusts tonight about 60 miles per hour and the
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hills. you see the areas in red, those are your red flag warnings. above a thousand feet, does not mean you will have high fire danger in napa downtown. that's where the strongest winds will be. even along the coast it is going to be warm, the next couple days can make it into the 80s. so form i think -- between about 9:00 tonight and about 10:00 tomorrow morning that's when we see the strongest winds and that's when the fire danger would be the most dangerous. it would be dangerous but i think between tonight and tomorrow morning over night when the wind going that will be the most dangerous. here we are, it shows you the wind speeds,
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our winds will be peaking of 20-30 miles per hour. it starts to back off a little bit in the afternoon and these lines start to separate. we have had fire over night, you get nighttime fire and you get the winds blowing and you are going to have problems. so we are going to be watching it for you. these are your forecast ties for cities where you live. a lot of 0s. and maybe a couple of 90s. once the winds are back down we'll still have warms. the winds are scary around here t. this time of the year you hate to see winds going maybe 45 or 50 miles per hour of gusts. so late tonight and early tomorrow morning we'll be watching it close.
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here featured a three men of traditional native americans attire holding guns. the government will take care of you. members of the native americans community saying this billboard are insensitive and they want it to be taken down. the state senate public safety committee approves the bill to reopen the bliks for the scholarship. but, most of the families were not notified in time to apply. community members spoke out against the recent spikes in gun violence.orgers said organizers said they're devastated. the group you see lined up on te
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sidewalks as traffic drove by and also held a moment of silence in honoring of the victims of violence. >> it affected a lot of our staff and members. it is something that we need to confront directly. >> the demonstrators also created ribbons in memories of loss ones and hung them on the fence outside of the center. after a crash blocked that ramp for several hours. a truck over turned on the westbound highway to southbound 101 just before 1:30 this afternoon. the ramp is shutdown. no other vehicles were involved in the crash. the truck driver was taken to the hospital with minor injuries. making a for a dangerous mix this evening.
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>> complete bay area news coverage starts right now.
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hot, dry windy conditions are putting the bay area on fire alert tonight. >> we have live team coverage tonight on the fire danger. first, chief meteorologist bill martin where the red flag warnings are taking effect as we speak. >> right now for all purposes for the north and east bay is above a thousand feet. i have to ask, just because you may not be above a thousand feet. in the valley we got the wind advisory. the winds are going to pick up tonight. are they there yet? no, we have got a combination, we have got a little bit of west winds little bit of the north winds.
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you will see temperatures in the mid 80s. temperatures increase as well tomorrow and that does not help fire conditions at all. the grasses are starting to dry out there. you look at the mountains joni, and starting to turn brown, is it? >> it is t the big deal is the green grasses are turning brown very rapidly. now to compare to three years ago of the conditions here right now are said to be even more dangerous. >> in this neighborhood i found a man who knows how easily it can happen. >> about this time of the year about years ago accidently started add fire. >> i spoke with fire weather expert today who says we are headed right now

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